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What is adaptation?
How animals change to survive different environmental changes.
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What is a cell?
This is the smallest unit of life.
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What is 1600s? Or 1620.
This was the century that the Pilgrims landed in the United States. (Bonus if you get exact year)
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Who is Louis XIV?
He was known as the Sun King in France.
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What is the Boston Tea Party?
The Colonists did this demonstration to protest the unfair taxes on English goods.
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What is Photosynthesis?
Plants use this process to make energy from the sun.
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What are fossils?
These were left behind by plants and animals, and they help scientists today figure out what happened millions of years ago.
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What is Jamestown?
This was the first Colony that survived in America.
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What is beheaded by Guilletiene?
This happened to most people who were friends or supporters of Nobles during the French Revolution and Reign of Terror (Robespierre)
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Who is George Washington?
He was the leader of the American Army against the British.
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What is a Food Web?
This design shows how different species of plants and animals are interrelated
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What is the Universe?
All the the matter and energy and pace that exists.
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What is tobacco?
This is the crop that made Virginia wealthy- with the use of slaves.
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Who is Catherine the Great?
She ruled Russia, even though she wasn't even born there!
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Who is Thomas Jefferson?
He wrote the Declaration of Independence. And became the 3rd President of the United States
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What is asexual reproduction?
Plants don't need a "female" and "male" part to reproduce this way.
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What is a Lightyear?
We use this unit of measurement to see how far away objects in space are (like the sun!)
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What is the Northwest Passage? (Also accepted: river to the Pacific Ocean)
Henry Hudson and Samuel Champlain both searched for this un-findable way.
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What is Japan?
This Asian country did not like Western ideas, especially religion, so they closed off their country for hundreds of years of isolation.
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What is France?
This country helped America fight England to win the Revolution.
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What is homeostasis?
When a body is in good balance: temperature, hunger, thirst, etc. it's said to be in this state.
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What is Mitosis?
Cells divide using this process (Not gametes)
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Who are the Dutch (or Netherlands)?
They found New York first (of course it was New Amsterdam when they owned it).
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What is The Great London Fire and the Plague?
These two things ravaged and destroyed London in the 1600s. (Along with battles between Catholics and Protestants).
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What is the Constitution?
This document was ratified to make the United States of Ameroca.
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